So at my job the other day we had an all staff meeting. I have never been to this monthly event in during my 6 months there. So here i am, setting amidst my "colleagues" (i use that term loosely since i'm ONLY a temp, which my manager never fails to remind me). Any how, introductions are made by the CEO of the company, those who received promotions were acknowledged, and then...in rolled in the quad.
He gave a less then riveting speech (shouting out folk he knows, dropping names, incoherent rambles on how he loves the biotechnology community littered with all his accomplishments as a "regular" person in a wheelchair, born with a silver spoon in his mouth!) I must admit that his story is amazing: losing the ability to walk two weeks before he started as a freshmen at Syracuse to later attain a law degree from Washington College of Law.
So after his less than great speak in which he says closes by saying: "i would like to leave you all with this. If there is one thing that i have said that you need to take with you it's this. You may have heard of the Famous rapper named Eminem from Detroit. From his song "lose yourself" he says, and i hold this dear to me:
"Look, if you had one shot (pause)... or one opportunity (pause)
To seize everything you ever wanted (pause)... one moment
Would you capture it (pause)... or just let it slip?"
Think about it!
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I could say something really mean spirited about seizing things while confined to a wheelchair but that's just evil. Plus this guy has accomplished way more than me without legs. Props!!!!!
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